01. Up In The Building
02. The Pearl
03. Bingo
04. They’re Coming
05. Transparent
06. The Bird
07. Dancing And Smiling
08. Vampire
09. Ten Kingdoms
10. Spartan Dance
11. Sun
12. Dance On My Skin
13. Clown
14. Wave Goodbye
Mira Anita Mathilda Romantschuk is an ethereal looking finnish girl who sings like an elf, with a sharpened, chilly voice. She used to work as a model in Paris when she met Laurent Leclčre, the composer and guitar player to whom Devendra Banhart dedicated “Gentle Soul”.
Laurent had composed music for some films, and was plenty of inspiration, but he still had not been able to channel it . When he met Mi, he found his own intense and indescribable musical language, as indescribable as the fire crackle or a January blizzard .The combination was perfect: “Picture a glacier with a red ember glowing in its center.”, Michael Gira said when he produced their first work with Young God Records.
Mi & L’Au stayed for a while in Paris until they decided to get lost in nature and lock themselves with their guitars in a hut, surrounded by snow , in the lost boreal moors. Cold, loneliness and music inspired such a sonorities that the castrating marketing labels can´t define, as many other times when it comes to real creators.
L’Au declares that his roots are in the European classical music which is true in comparison to all Northamerican pop, rock and jazz, but don´t expect an expert display or academic formalism from Mi & L’Au, but soul, strength and feelings. Such a strong feelings expressed with so much harshness that can even make you feel pain while listening to the duo.
They’ve been 4 years around the World, visiting any place where people were well-disposed towards their tender, queer and ghostly music. They’ve finally landed in the Mediterranean. Valencia, the hiper-cheerfull and confortable capital of the spanish East coast, is their home now and it’s been there where Mi and L’Au have recorded their new work, “Good Morning Jokers”. Don´t you think that because they’re in the bright flower’s land, their work lacks melancholy and darkness of their characteristic sound.
Mistery and intelligence, tenderness and fear, beauty and misery combine in a disturbing and queer potion that is listened with pleasure, but at the same time makes the listener become uneasy, finding that suddenly is hidden away in somebody else’s World, filled with an irresistible and unlikely beauty and ambiguous as siren’s songs and fairy’s tears.
“Good Morning Jokers” is a deep and demanding new musical experience that won´t leave anybody indifferent.
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